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antiqueadj.n. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French antique; Latin antīquus. Etymology: < (i) Middle French antic, Middle French, French antique (adjective) of great age (c1180 in Old French with reference to things, 15th cent. with reference to people), of or relating to the ancient Greek and Roman civilizations (a1359), designating a Roman typeface (1550; compare antiqua n.), designating a method of bookbinding (1754 or earlier; the sense ‘antiquated, out of date’ is not paralleled in French until later: a1673), (noun) the ancient Greeks and Romans collectively (a1359 in plural antics ), an object, building, or work of art from the ancient past (1530 in Palsgrave: compare quot. 1530 at sense B. 1a), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin antīquus, antīcus (adjective) ancient, early, old, formed, that lived long ago, that existed long ago, that has been in existence a very long time, of long standing, ancestral, primeval, old-fashioned, out of date, antiquated, (masculine noun) man of ancient times, (plural, antīquī ) the ancients collectively < ante before (see ante- prefix) + a second element < the same Indo-European base as classical Latin oculus oculus n. Compare later antic n. and adj., probably originally a variant of this word (see discussion at that entry, and also note below).Foreign-language parallels. Compare Old Occitan antic (c1150 as adjective, 14th cent. (in plural les Antics the ancient Greeks and Romans) as noun), Catalan antic (c1250 as adjective, also as noun), Spanish antiguo (10th cent. as adjective, early 13th cent. as noun), Portuguese antigo (10th cent. as adjective, 13th cent. as noun), Italian antico (early 13th cent. as adjective, mid 13th cent. (in plural †antiqui the ancient Greeks and Romans) as noun). Compare also Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French, French antif (first half of the 12th cent. as adjective, last quarter of the 12th cent. as noun in sense ‘old person’), which shows an analogical formation on the feminine form antive (12th cent.), the regular French reflex of classical Latin antīqua , feminine corresponding to antīquus . The Latin word was also borrowed into other Germanic languages, in many cases via French. Compare e.g. Middle Dutch antique , adjective (Dutch antiek , adjective and noun), German antik , adjective (end of the 17th cent. as †antiq ), Antiken (plural noun) ancient Greek or Roman people collectively (1548), Antike (feminine) ancient Greek or Roman work of art (end of the 17th cent., chiefly in plural Antiken ), classical civilization, the era in which the ancient Greeks and Romans lived (late 18th cent.). Diachronic stress variation; relationship with antic n. and adj. N.E.D. (1885) also gave a variant pronunciation with stress on the first syllable, (æ·ntik) /ˈæntɪk/, making the word homophonous with antic adj., which was probably originally a specific sense development of this word, only later distinguished in spelling and pronunciation. The position of stress appears to have varied between the first and second syllables, especially in early usage; Johnson (1755) commented that antique ‘was formerly pronounced according to English analogy, with the accent on the first syllable; but now after the French, with the accent on the last, at least in prose; the poets use it variously’. First-syllable stress was common in poetry until the 19th cent. even when the spelling antique was employed (compare e.g. quots. 1674 at sense A. 2bα. , 1725 at sense A. 4a). Pronouncing dictionaries from the late 18th cent. onwards record only second-syllable stress for antique. A. adj.the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] α. 1490 W. Caxton tr. xxii. sig. Fiij A grete oke tre antyque & inuetered of many yeres among the grete stones harde strongely roted. a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland in J. Ware (1633) 28 A nation so antique, as that no monument remaines of her beginning. 1610 G. Fletcher 2 Ye sacred writings in whose antique leaues. 1664 S. Butler ii. i. 57 Or Innovation introduce In place of things of antique use. 1781 E. Gibbon III. 138 Tempted them to neglect the care of their antique walls. 1889 W. B. Yeats 147 By wood antique, by wave and waste, Where cypress is and oozy pine, Did I on quivering pinions haste. 1975 M. T. Watts (1999) i. 5 We had found an antique forest, and we spent the day richly within it. 2. Of or relating to ancient times. Frequently with positive connotations. the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of ancient or medieval Europe > [adjective] α. 1531 T. Elyot sig. H.ij Theyr [sc. certain Roman jurists'] stile dothe approche nerer to the antique & pure eloquence, than any other kinde of writars, that wrate aboute that tyme. 1613 G. Chapman sig. A3v The Herrald was attyr'd in an Antique Curace of siluer stuffe. 1738 in T. Birch Hist. Acct. Life Milton in J. Milton I. p. liv All his Images are pure Antique, so that we read Homer and Virgil in reading him. 1819 Ld. Byron cxciv. 216 And thus they form a group that's quite antique, Half naked, loving, natural, and Greek. 1901 H. O. Taylor (1903) ix. 287 The early Christian Latin poets followed the usual forms or genres of antique poetry. 1969 K. Clark i. 29 Virgil, that great mediator between the antique and the medieval world. 2001 S. C. Barton xi. 217 Tolerance and intolerance are part of a value system of a society where individual freedom of expression is placed at a premium. Antique society was not of that kind. the world > time > relative time > the past > [adjective] > long-past or old the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > marked by the characteristics of earlier period α. 1532 R. Whittington tr. Erasmus sig. A.3/2 Nor it is nat said with out cause of antique sage men, that the eye is the seate and place of the soule. 1674 S. Butler (new ed.) ii. iii. 375 Some say, the Zodiack-Constellations Have long since chang'd their antique Stations. 1753 W. Hogarth vi. 37 The antique lappets belonging to the head of the Sphinx. 1853 C. Brontë I. i. 2 Looking down on a fine antique street. a1861 A. H. Clough (1869) II. 76 The antique pure simplicity with which God and good angels communed undispleased. 1919 July 629/1 These antique civilizations were condemned to a sterile round of conquest, organization and dissolution. 1996 J. Dunning (1998) 334 All the decorum and antique charm of an old spa or private boarding school. 3. Frequently mildly depreciative or humorous. the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > old-fashioned or antiquated ?1532 sig. C8v The olde and antycke custome let hit be kepte thorowout Egypt, Lyby, & Penthapoly. 1540 T. Cranmer Prol. or Pref. in sig. ✠ There remayneth yet diuers copyes founde lately in olde abbeis, of soch antique maners of writynge and speaking, that fewe men nowe ben able to reade and vnderstande them. 1631 B. Jonson ii. v. sig. C7v Fart vpon Euclide, he is stale, & antique, Gi'me the modernes. 1685 P. N. (single sheet) The Bible-Book is but a Lifeless Letter.., For (tho' the Scriptures Sense) the Stile is Antick. 'Tis Old, and Dead. 1734 tr. C. Rollin III. vii. 364 Your integrity is of too antique a cast. 1847 H. W. Longfellow i. i. 74 There stood the broad-wheeled wains and the antique ploughs and the harrows. 1974 M. MacDonald xvii. 142 All this idle jollification seems..I don't know, somehow so antique. 2004 T. Powers (rev. ed.) i. 4 The shape of his life already has an antique air. a1560 T. Phaer tr. Virgil (1562) viii. sig. Aa.iv To him the god of Tiber floode, which rules that pleasaunt place, In vision showed himselfe, vprising graue with antique face. 1608 S. Rowlands Proteus in sig. C4v Come good Proteus come away a pace, We long to see thy mumping Antique face. 1796 R. Polwhele 46 Some antique crone, green-spectacled, May bend her dim eye o'er the unclasped book. 1804 II. 337 Her antique wrinkles, plump person, and worn out voice. 1999 D. Mitchell 333 Brendan shooshed with his antique hands. 1755 H. Walpole Let. 10 Mar. in (1833) III. 94 This will come to you as very antique news. 1882 (Columbia Univ, N.Y.) 24 Mar. 39/1 We will not search the paragraphs of the Graphic for similar errors, for the pleasure of retaliation would be counterbalanced by the amount of antique ‘news’ we would have to read in order to do so. 1995 24 Feb. 95/2 When antique tittle-tattle swamps the front pages, there's probably a plot afoot. 2008 (Nexis) 2 Nov. br1 Admittedly, in this concrete block of a volume there are long stretches of nattering, antique gossip, ideas that come to nothing. 4. the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > of antiques or ancient relics 1725 J. Gay 3 When I some antique Jar behold, Or white, or blue, or speck'd with gold. 1822 17 Antique furniture and ornamental china dealer. 1937 Apr. 168/3 My dining room table is, of course, drop leaf, a really charming antique cherry table. 2002 1 July (T2 section) 17/1 All you see are home-made preserves, antique china and tweed jackets in the windows of the wood-framed shops. 1853 G. K. Matthews ii. 17 Around this majestic hall run dark panels of oak beautifully carved, which..covered and gave a fine antique finish to the walls. 1943 H. Read iv. 55 In extreme cases he must ‘distress’ the piece—that is to say, employ a man to throw bolts and nails at the chair until it has been knocked about enough to look ‘antique’. 1984 (Nexis) May 48 I took the opportunity to order a priming horn, sans any decoration, but with an attractive, mellow antique finish. 2009 16 Feb. 29/1 ABC Carpet & Home was burning off its antique furniture at up to 40 percent off. 1906 13 Nov. 8/5 Automobiles that are antique. Already the Parisians are amusing themselves with parades of ‘antique’ automobiles! 1937 30 Oct. 16/3 A 1900 Benz entered in the cavalcade belongs to George A. Waterman, jr., of Rhode Island, who is the owner of 77 antique cars. 1951 24 Aug. 6/5 A parade of the finest antique and classic cars in America will be held. 2003 D. Brown (2004) lxvi. 374 The collection was astonishing—a black Ferrari, a pristine Rolls-Royce, an antique Aston Martin sports coupé, a vintage Porsche 356. society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > type of binding > [adjective] 1794 J. Edwards 174 Theocriti, aliorumque Poetarum Idyllia..in rich antique binding, covered with gold, 15s. 1880 J. W. Zaehnsdorf xxii. 111 Finishing is divided into two classes—blind or antique, or as it is sometimes called, monastic and gold-finished. 1918 Advt. T. B. Peterson & Brothers 7 in J. H. Green (end matter) People's duodecimo edition [of the works of Dickens]... Half calf, ancient antique,..$32. 1973 M. B. Stilwell 212 A ‘Collector's edition’ in full antique calf, tooled on both covers with a design copied from the covers of an early printed book and with the title resplendent in tooled goldleaf. 2001 C. Frost tr. L. Antoccia et al. 108 (caption) Antique binding of Codex Hammer (1720–1730). 6. Typography. Chiefly in antique type. society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > style of type > [adjective] > others ?1817 V. Figgins f. 86 Five Lines Pica Antique... Two Lines Nonpareil Antique. 1843 2 138 In the Antique type there is but a slight difference, and sometimes none at all, between C and G. 1905 1 Oct. 267/1 The books are printed on pure rag paper in antique type. 1976 J. M. Smethurst in C. A. McLaren ii. 16 In 1815 Vincent Figgins cut his Antique type. 1862 (W. Dawson & Sons) 137/2 Herbert's Complete Works... Pickering's handsome library edition, printed in large antique type by Whittingham. 1922 J. Joyce iii. 661 A Handbook of Astronomy (cover, brown leather, detached, 5 plates, antique letterpress [etc.]). 1997 M. Z. Bradley viii. 184 The first half had facing pages in English and French, both in antique type and neither easy to read. society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > [adjective] > having specific surface or texture 1826 17 32 The best cold-pressed antique paper, upon which the Prince of Bavaria ‘had condescended to write’. ?1912 (Spalding & Hodge) ii. 1 Antique, a term originally applied to machine-made papers made in imitation of old handmade printings. It denoted colour and finish. It is now used to describe any good bulking paper with a rough surface. 1958 3 Oct. 567/4 To combine two qualities of paper in the same book, that is to print the text on antique paper and the plates on coated paper. 2005 R. Prytherch 522 It can print from a screen up to 400 lines on antique paper and other rough surfaces. B. n. 1. the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [noun] > object from the past or antique 1530 J. Palsgrave 487/2 Si ceste antique estoyt mise en or, ce seroyt une belle chose. If this antique were closed in golde, it were a goodly thing. 1686 W. Aglionby (new ed.) ii. 90 His Forms are very Correct, as having studied all the Antiques of Rome better than any Painter of his Age. 1738 E. Chambers (ed. 2) (at cited word) Speaking of an antique, we say the head is marble, and the bust porphyry or bronze, that is, the stomach and shoulders. 1850 J. Leitch tr. K. O. Müller (new ed.) §36 By far the greatest number of antiques, especially statues, were found between 1450 and 1550. 1912 16 283 Huebner presents the results of his studies of Roman antiques as known to the artists of the Renaissance. 1998 P. Greenaway in P. Melia & A. Woods 130/1 I made a painting of the branch to suggest a Greek antique—a fragmented female. society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > ancient, primitive, or pre-Renaissance > [noun] 1662 J. Evelyn iv. 91 La Hyre has Etched many things after the Antique, as Bacchanalia's and several other. a1766 I. Ware (1767) ii. vi. iii. 254 This is an invention intirely modern, we have not a single instance of it in the antique, but it is a modern thought that might have done honour to antiquity. 1859 T. J. Gullick & J. Timbs 312 The course of drawing from the ‘antique’ is then entered upon. 2004 J. Carmel-Arthur in S. Buzas et al. 9/2 Canova 's passion for the antique and his sensibility for the emerging style of Neoclassicism. the world > time > relative time > the past > [noun] > time long past or long ago > one who lived in ancient times 1553 R. Burrant tr. Erasmus in (new ed.) sig. G.viv Take counsaill of thinges, either good or euill... After thexample of that Romishe God Ianus, whom the antiques did feigne to haue had twoo foreheaddes or faces. 1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten i. xxxviii. 72/2 Their shooes, which they weare like Antiques with cut toes. 1637 F. Rous ii. x. 71 For the antiques called beanes πυάμους. ?1792 T. Sheraton 14 Besides the human figures there are others of an imaginary kind employed by the antiques in their decorations. 1813 Ld. Byron Jrnl. 24 Nov. in (1830) I. 452 Except..Æschylus, Sophocles, and some other of the antiques also—what a worthless, idle brood it is! 1908 Mar. 540/2 His studies of the female figure are almost Greek in their suggestion; his ‘Danses Nues’ in particular suggesting the art of the antiques. 3. the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [noun] > object from the past or antique > article of furniture, china, etc. 1726 20 July 2/2 (advt.) To be sold by Auction,..a fine Collection of original and other Pictures, Prints and Drawings, by several of the best Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch Masters, and divers other Antiques and Curiosities. 1849 H. Melville II. xviii. 74 And here, strewn about, all dusty and disordered, were the precious antiques. 1884 Dec. 210/1 Brass and copper vessels..many of them shapely as antiques. 1913 May 301 Genuine antiques are admitted in America duty free. 1954 Mar. 30/2 There should be no mistake, either, about whether it is a reproduction or a bona fide antique. 2011 (National ed.) 30 Oct. (Travel section) 4/4 She scoured the countryside to find interesting antiques. the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [noun] > object from the past or antique > antiquities 1908 R. Shackleton & E. Shackleton (title) The quest of the antique, being some personal experiences in the finding of old furniture. 2009 L. Rosenstein iv. 189 The aesthetic response to the antique has affected not merely individuals but how a civilization sees itself. the world > people > person > old person > [noun] 1801 26 Dec. 3/2 Att.—Aye, you always affected singularity; but you are an antique, notwithstanding. Dr.—Old enough, I grant, to have outlived all the valuable part of my acquaintance. 1941 2 Dec. (Late Extra ed.) 6/1 ‘Miss Purdom is a treasure,’ said Mavis. ‘You mean she is an antique,’ said Eric grimly, ‘and not a beautiful one at that.’ 2012 (Nexis) 6 Apr. 22 He's an antique, as old as some of his crewmates' fathers. 1845 V. Figgins & J. Figgins The present specimen of elongated antiques, is from the old established foundry. 1867 Sept. 639/2 I rolled the word under my tongue as if it were a sweet morsel, and pronounced it as if it were written in small caps or black face antique. 1900 T. L. De Vinne I. 325 Specimen No. 3, usually called doric, is really a combination of a thick-faced roman and antique. 1967 Mar. 25/1 Typographers categorize typefaces in the following groups... Antiques or semi-Egyptians, such as Clarendon, Ionic, Fortune and the Latins. 1990 A. Lawson xxvii. 308 The first square-serif type to be introduced was the Antique of London's Vincent Figgins Foundry, turning up in the 1817 catalogue of that firm in four sizes. 2017 R. Poulin i. 41/1 In 1845, he [sc. Robert Besley] created the typeface Clarendon..which marked a significant transition from traditional slab serif Antiques and Egyptians..to typefaces with bracketed serifs. 1901 H. A. Beers viii. 401 The old-fashioned, as distinguished from the antique, begins to have a romanticness of its own. 2006 C. Frazier 92 His hunting costume carried about it the air of the antique. The hem of his rifle frock fell nearly to his knees. Compounds1840 F. W. Taylor II. v. 225 There are many expensive curiosities, which seldom reach the United States, found in the antique shops of the city. 1893 5 Aug. 90/2 I wonder if it is really the sword of Gen. Warren that hangs in an antique store on Beacon Street. 1897 10 Oct. 17/2 Fascinating-looking brass pails..in an ‘antiques shop’ in New York. 1937 12 Oct. 8/7 (headline) Duke and Duchess of Kent at antiques fair... Among their purchases was a silver coffee pot owned by King George III. 1991 J. Smiley xvii. 122 Once Rose found an old hall rack, oak and, after we cleaned it, brass. She sold it for forty dollars to an antique store in Cabot. 1999 T. Parsons (2000) xi. 85 We lived on the wrong side of Highbury Corner,..the side where there were junk stores rather than antique shops. 2005 Spring 40 If you were entertaining the notion that shopping for antiques is glamorous and chichi, think again. The antiques market in Newark, about a two-hour drive from London, is like no other. society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in antiques 1819 Aug. 30/2 A groupe of antique hunters is found all engaged upon the same scent for one article of rare worth. 1847 A. Smith 28 In the antique dealer's store, Precious chairs and tables sleep, Which were not, in days of yore, E'er considered worth their keep. 1882 L. S. Bainbridge xxviii. 404 We had the antique collector with scarabs and old coins on in his watch-chain. 1904 21 June 9/3 (headline) Antiques dealer settles in full... Gardiner, dealer in antique furniture and bric-à-brac at 257 Fifth Avenue [etc.]. 2010 27 Dec. 35/4 Taking her on more antiques-hunting excursions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). antiquev. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: antique adj. Etymology: < antique adj.With sense 1 compare later antiquate v. 2. In sense 2 after antiquing n. 1; compare French antiquer (1838 in this sense; 16th cent. in Middle French in sense ‘to abolish (a custom) and replace it with a new one’). In sense 3 after antiquer n. 2 and antiquing n. 2. society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > work of art > [verb (transitive)] > give antique appearance to 1786 H. Walpole 15 Dec. (1965) XXXIII. 548 They have got a charming house in Curzon Street and cheap as old clothes. It was Lord Carteret's, and all antiqued and grotesqued by Adam. 1884 3 May 356/1 This plan is sometimes termed antiquing the glass, and is supposed to give the appearance of age. 1920 Nov. 23 Carefully ‘antiqued’ by softening the sharp edges and producing little irregularities of surface. 2007 J. Marchese (2008) xii. 189 Some violin makers refuse to antique a new instrument, arguing that..it perpetuates the cult of old age that permeates their world. society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > type of binding > types of binding [verb (transitive)] 1896 Oct. 111/1 The cover is in crimson morocco, the dark lines..being impressed blind or antiqued. 1928 16 June (Week End ed.) 5/3 It is the people who know nothing about antiques but who have the money to go antiquing, who make the mischief. 1983 23 Jan. 14/6 One way to furnish a home and also add spice to dull winter months might be to go antiquing in the Cotswolds. 2012 23 July 35/3 We..crossed the Chao Phraya to go antiquing. We returned with a glazed ceramic Bodhidharma. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  adj.n.1490 v.1786 |
